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Mark Cuban's new online pharmacy is saving people huge amounts of money and is absolutely humiliating the federal government in the process
https://notthebee.com ^ | Jun 23rd, 2022 2:31 pm | Daniel Payne

Posted on 06/23/2022 1:24:03 PM PDT by Red Badger

Shark investor Mark Cuban has made plenty of waves over the course of his multibillion-dollar career, but most recently he's launched a successful excursion into the generic drug trade:

Mark Cuban aims to lower prescription drug prices with online pharmacy People searching for cheaper alternatives to high priced prescription drugs have a new and perhaps unexpected option. It's an online pharmacy founded by Mark Cuban, a billionaire businessman, Shark Tank star and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. His new direct-to-consumer company, Cost Plus Drugs, offers more than 100 generic medications at discounted prices. He joins Geoff Bennett to discuss. WWW.PBS.ORG

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mark-cuban-aims-to-lower-prescription-drugs-prices-with-online-pharmacy

People searching for cheaper alternatives to high priced prescription drugs have a new and perhaps unexpected option. It's an online pharmacy founded by Mark Cuban, a billionaire businessman, Shark Tank star and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. His new direct-to-consumer company, Cost Plus Drugs, offers more than 100 generic medications at discounted prices.

Is he having success? You'd better believe it—it's been such a success that it's making the federal government look like a total putz:

Mark Cuban’s new drug company exposes billions in government overspending The United States government could save billions of healthcare dollars if it purchased generic drugs at the prices offered by Mark Cuban’s new online pharmacy that was launched this year. WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/mark-cubans-drug-company-exposes-billions-government-overspending

The United States government could save billions of healthcare dollars if it purchased generic drugs at the prices offered by Mark Cuban's new online pharmacy that was launched this year.

In a comparison between Medicare's spending in 2020 and the prices of Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company, researchers found that Medicare could have saved $3.6 billion, according to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Hussain Saleem Lalani, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the study's lead author, said that the study "does show that Medicare is overpaying for some of the generic drugs."

"This is a conservative estimate, so the actual savings are likely higher," Lalani added.

The federal government to Mark Cuban right now:

Meanwhile, people haven't been shy about celebrating the amount of money they're saving by opting for Cost Plus instead of a traditional pharmacy:


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Society
KEYWORDS: cuban; drugs; generic; genericdrugs; healthcare; mark; markcuban
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1 posted on 06/23/2022 1:24:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

does he sell ivermectin?


2 posted on 06/23/2022 1:24:49 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Red Badger

i dont see any one has posted the url to his site ?


3 posted on 06/23/2022 1:28:16 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: imabadboy99

Just checked and no, he doesn’t. Not surprising.


4 posted on 06/23/2022 1:28:37 PM PDT by bluerose
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To: George from New England

https://costplusdrugs.com/


5 posted on 06/23/2022 1:30:23 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Red Badger

Its good if the generics are high quality. Sometimes people run into problems with generics - they are not always identical to the brand drugs they compete against.


6 posted on 06/23/2022 1:30:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

stupid site

won’t even let you look for a Rx without red tape first


7 posted on 06/23/2022 1:32:09 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: Red Badger

If I was in the navy on shore liberty in Bangkok, I would not buy a box of condoms from this China b!tchboy.


8 posted on 06/23/2022 1:32:11 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: imabadboy99

No. I just checked.


9 posted on 06/23/2022 1:32:22 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: George from New England

Did you look under “medications”? I see lots of drugs.


10 posted on 06/23/2022 1:36:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket?)
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To: Red Badger
Pharmaceuticals is perhaps the greatest opportunity to rip off the U.S. consumer. Many people need them just to stay alive. So that leads to a few pharmaceutical companies to collude together to keep the prices artificially high.

After all, we either pay their price...or die.

11 posted on 06/23/2022 1:38:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,347,247 active users on Truth Social)
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To: SamAdams76

They can be a legalized monopoly thanks to Congress. Congress made it legal for a drug company to PAY another drug company to not manufacture a drug thereby reducing competition.


12 posted on 06/23/2022 1:45:01 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket?)
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To: Red Badger

Ummm one must have morals and a sense of shame to feel embarrassment. You must have the federal govt confused with someone else.


13 posted on 06/23/2022 1:53:27 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Red Badger

Will the idiot Cuban now be cancelled as well?


14 posted on 06/23/2022 1:57:27 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: George from New England

Huh? What red tape? I was able to look for the two Rx we take, and they offer both. It says to find the med first and then contact your doctor so you can fill the prescription through this website. Seems simple enough. Am I missing something?


15 posted on 06/23/2022 2:00:57 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: Red Badger

I looked at his prices for the type of hypertension medication I use. It’s even cheaper than the co-pay price I get from Kaiser Permanente, about 50% less! 😲 It makes you wonder how much of a ripoff the pharmacy benefit management companies like Express Scripts, CVS Health and UnitedHealth really are. 💊💸😒😑🙄


16 posted on 06/23/2022 2:05:36 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: FamiliarFace

I guess to expect a simple search button or option is too much. I will go elsewhere.


17 posted on 06/23/2022 2:07:41 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: FamiliarFace

“It says to find the med first and then contact your doctor so you can fill the prescription through this website. Seems simple enough. Am I missing something?”

You’re missing the fact that the usual gang of maroons show up and start bad mouthing anything remotely positive. I would say ask for proof that this is a scam or just a publicity stunt, but “proof, we don’ need no stinkin’ proof” is the rule for some folks.


18 posted on 06/23/2022 2:09:07 PM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: Red Badger

The feds will shut him down post haste to capitulate with Big Pharma. They hated President Trump and we all know what they did to him for trying to lower medical drug prices.


19 posted on 06/23/2022 2:11:07 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: imabadboy99

Was just thinking the same damn thing! lulz


20 posted on 06/23/2022 2:11:08 PM PDT by cranked
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